Journal-box.



A. AUSTIN.

JOURNAL BOX. V

Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ATWELL AUSTN, OIE J?AWNEE, OKLAHOMA, ASSIGNOR OIE ONEIIALF T0 HENRY JACKSON, OF PAWNEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA.

JOURNAL-B 0X.

Specificacibn of*Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 12,1913.

T 0 all wwm 2'25 may concern:

Be it known thatI, ATWELL AUSTIN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pawnee, in thecounty of Pawnee and State of Oklahoma, have invented neW and useful Improvements in J ournal-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in journal boxes and has particular application to journal boxes for car wheels.

One object of the invention is the provision of a ournal box adapted to contain oil or other suitable lubricating material, which shall be provided With means to prevent leakage of the oil therefrom.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a journal box capable of con- 'taining a quantity of lubricating material and applicable to the journals of car wheels, the journal box and the journal of the car wheel being provided with companion clements which cooperate with each other to prevent the leakage of oil from the journal box.

Vith the above and other objects in view the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hercinafter described and pointed out with particularly in the appencled claim.

In the accompanying drawings torming a portion of this specification; Figure 1 is a side elevation of a journal box constructed in accordance with the present invention and applied toa car wheel. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional vievv through the journal box, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the same.

Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawings, in Which I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention, 1 designates a car wheel constructed of any suitable or preferred material and provided with the nsnal journal 2.

The journal box is designated at 3 and comprises sections 1 and 5, each of which is formed with laterally projecting longitudinal fianges 6 and 7 respectively proviclecl with alining openings designed to receive bolts 8 to secure the sections in box-forming position. Pivotally connected to the forward end of the section 41 is a door or lid 9 designed to engage the inclined front wall 10 of the lower section 5 to close the box, the section 5 being adapted to contain a sufficient quantity of oil or other lubricating fluid.

[he rear ends of the sections 4 and 5 of the ournal box are preferably inturned to prov1de inwardly extending fianges 11 and 12 respectively, each of which is formed with a semicircular opening designed to coperate with one another in the assembling of the sections of the journal box to form an opening 13 of a dia1heter slightly greater than the similar dimension of the journal 2 of the car wbeel thereby eliminating friction between the rear walls of the journal box and the car vvheel journal.

Interiorly of the journal box, the flanges 11 and 12 are provided with companion segments 14 and 15 respectively adapted to cooperate with one another to form a ringlike member, each of the said segments of the ring-like member being provided with alining outturned fianges 16, the purpose of which Will presently appear.

Rigidly secured to the journal 2 upon the interior of the ournal box and adjacent the opening 13 therein, is a disk 17 provided xvith a peripheral fiange 18 terminating in an inwardly projecting annular lip 19 adapted to snugly engage the langes 16 of the ring-like member to prevent the escape of oil from the journal box through the opening 13, the disk 17 being rotatable with the journal 2 of the car vvheel and relatively to the ring-like member formed by the companion sections 14 and 15. This disk is preferably formed of a number of sections so that the same may be applied to the axle of the xvheel and interlocked with the segments 141 and 15, the sections of the disk being fastened to each other in disk forma tion tbrough the medium of bolts and fianges, of a band surrounding the flange 18.

From this construction it W1ll be seen that leakage of the oil from the journal box, through the opening 13 therein, is prevented thereby obviating the waste incident, heretofore, in journal box construction,

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation Will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art towhich the inven tion appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that such changes may be made wl1en desired as are within the scope of the claim appended heret0.

Having thus described my invention what I daim and desre to sccure by Letters-Pacont is:

The combinaci0n with a car wheel journal, of a journal box comprising two sections eaoh carrying a segment copemting with the companion segment to form a, ringlke member and provided with an outturned fiange alining wth the fiange on the adjacent segment, a disk rigidly secured to the said car wheel journal withln the ournal box and for1ned with a peripheml fiange havlng an annular lip projecting inwarcl1y thereof and spaced apart from the disk and adapted to snugly engage the fianges of the ring-like member on the companion segments on the sections of the journal box whereby leakage of the lubricating nteral from the journal box is avoded.

In testimony whereof I alfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

A1VVELL AUSTIN. itnesses L. P. SAUNDERS, J. B. CARTER.

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Washington, D. C. 

